Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Why can’t an Israeli film win an Oscar?
By Tom Tugend
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Jewish films don’t make Oscar cut
By Tom Tugend
If Hollywood is dominated by Jews, it sure let our side . . .
Sunday, March 7, 2010
‘Ajami’ passed over at Oscars
JTA
Israel's half-century jinx at the Oscars continued Sunday night, as “Ajami” was passed over for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language . . .
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
“Jew Süss” Doc Explores A Family’s Shameful Legacy
by Andy Lauer, Cinemadaily
“In the history of the cinema, the German director Veit Harlan occupies an especially ignominious position,” writes Larry Rother in the New York . . .
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Cohn Wears Zionist Heart With Pride
By Naomi Pfefferman
“I am what one would call a perfectionist,” said the Swiss film producer Arthur Cohn, who is as renowned for his ardent Zionism as he is for his . . .
Friday, February 26, 2010
From Israel, A Humane And Honest Look At Life
NPR.com
In Israel itself, people know better. A wonderful example of this is the gripping new film Ajami, which was written and directed by Scandar Copti — . . .
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Germany’s only Jewish film festival in danger of closure
HAARETZ.com
Germany's only Jewish Film Festival is in danger of closing down due to lack of funding, the event's founder and director Nicola Galliner said on . . .
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Why the Original Wolf Man Howled
By Pat Sierchio
“I am the Wolf Man!”
This proclamation was not made by Lon Chaney Jr., who starred in the 1941 film “The Wolf Man.” Nor was it pronounced . . .
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Jews, Evangelicals: Strange Bedfellows
By Tom Tugend
Israel may have become a punching bag for much of the world, but 50 million Americans back the Jewish state 100 percent, no ifs, buts or . . .
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Jewish-themed films earn Oscar noms [VIDEO]
By Tom Tugend
Three Jewish-themed films and an Israeli film are among the nominees for the 82nd annual Academy . . .
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Israel’s Multicultural Ajami Contends for Best Foreign Film Oscar—in Arabic
by Jordan Elgrably
Lost in all the international debate on the Israeli-Palestinian question is the fact that Israel has become a complex multicultural society. No film . . .
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Realism or Anti-Semitism?
By Tom Tugend
Is anti-Semitism in America alive, well and dangerous, or merely a figment of a paranoid-prone people’s . . .
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A down-to-earth, ‘Avatar’ Tu b’Shvat
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA
Celebrating Tu B’Shvat this year on an alien moon called Pandora? Why . . .
Monday, January 18, 2010
Christoph Waltz takes Golden Globe for ‘Basterds’
JTA
Christoph Waltz won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his role as a suave and sadistic Nazi colonel in “Inglorious . . .
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Award Contenders Reflect Jewish Experience Around Globe
By Tom Tugend
While mainstream critics speculate endlessly on which movie, director or actress will waltz off with the Oscar and Golden Globe trophies, this . . .
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
“The Bicycle Thief” transcends time, ideology
By Tom Tugend
It is the mark of a classic work, a Shakespeare play or an unforgettable movie, that it transcends its time. It speaks as truly when seen the first . . .
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
‘Inglourious’ Ranks, Israel Lags in Oscar Entry
By Tom Tugend
Chanukah has gone and Christmas is here, so it’s time for critics and other deep thinkers to weigh in on which film producers, directors and actors . . .
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tarantino to attend JTS screening of ‘Inglourious Basterds’
JTA
The producer of “Inglourious Basterds” will discuss the topic of revenge at a Jewish Theological Seminary . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Winter Treasures on Screen
by Iris Mann, Contributing Writer
The coming winter season offers some small gems, many of which may remain under the radar, so to speak. Most, in their individual ways, tell stories . . .
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Film to be shot about ‘Brazilian Schindler’
JTA
A documentary about a Brazilian Righteous Gentile will be produced in . . .
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Dreamworks to film Jerusalem documentary
JTA
Dreamworks Studios will produce a documentary series at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical . . .
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
British Film Gives ‘An Education’ in Anti-Semitism
by Irina Bragin, Contributing Writer
We were only 15 minutes into the film and this was the second reference to the “Wandering Jew,” an age-old, European anti-Semitic stereotype. The . . .
Monday, November 30, 2009
Talking Israel, Jews and anti-Semitism at Amsterdam film festival
By Ben Harris, JTA
A hushed crowd filed into a standing-room-only space above the Escape Club in Amsterdam last week to hear the Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Maziar . . .
Friday, November 20, 2009
Oren Moverman’s ‘The Messenger’: The unseen casualties of war
By Naomi Pfefferman
When filmmaker Oren Moverman returned to Tel Aviv, on leave from his paratrooper unit during the first Lebanon War, he often shut himself in his room . . .
